BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Pages 616-617.

DANIEL AULT

Daniel Ault, of Richland township, well-known as one of the well-to-do
farmers of Belmont county, was born in that township April 10, 1820. He
is the son of Philip Ault, a native of York county, Penn., who there
married Elizabeth Lowe, of German descent, and in 1801, removed to
Richland township. He settled upon a farm in Richland township, and
there lived until his death. Daniel Ault was reared on the old homestead,
and educated in the common schools. The schooling then received, however,
he has supplemented by wide and varied reading, and he is now one of the
well-informed men of the county. Beginning his career as a farmer without
means he now has a well-improved farm of 160 acres, and a comfortable
home. Among his neighbors he is influential and popular. For three years
he has held the position of assessor of the township and as school
director, he has served twenty years, and more. In 1844, Mr. Ault was
married to Lucinda Wilkinson, daughter of William and Anna (Billingsley)
Wilkinson, by whom he had three children: Elizabeth A., Addie and William
E. She died, and in 1854 he was married to her sister, Ruth, who was
born in 1830. They have had ten children, nine of whom are living: Mary B.,
wife of Charles Winans, died in 1886; Philip, Emma, Ella, Flora, Jennie
May, Amfro, Daniel B., Nina R. and Henry.